History Of Greek Mythology

The character traits of Phaethon drive the story to its tragic conclusion. In the passage “Phaethon” it says, “‘I do, I do!’ cried Phaethon. ‘Stand away, sire! The dawn grows old and day must begin! Go, horses, go!’” This shows, that Phaethon is eager trying to drive the sun chariot so he does not listen to his father's instructions. In the passage “Phaethon” it says, “I must show him that it is I driving the chariot of the sun—I alone. Apollo said not to come too close to earth, but how will he know?” This explains, how Phaethon is selfish because he chooses glory over the lives of the innocent and he doesn't even get the glory. In the passage “Phaethon” it says, “‘I’ll go to the palace of the sun right now and hold my father to his promise.

Greek Mythology has been known to be one of the footprints left by the civilization of ancient Greece to our history and these mythology somehow shed a light to the culture, life style, religion and history of ancient Greece since the mythology were the primary basis of the origin of the ancient Greeks and they believed that these mythologies explained the origin of why things turned out to be like that.

People from early civilizations created myths which they followed in their everyday lives. These myths carried three details to explain how the world was created. Those three details were

Phaethon is the son of Clymene and she told Phaethon he is the son of the Sun god. But, she said you will not believe me ,he went to ask his father for hisself.So Phaethon went to the radiant palace of the sun and asked the Sun God if he was his father.He said yes everything that Clymene told you is true. The sun god wanted to prove that he was his father so anything that the son wish he shall it. Phaethon asked to take the place of the sun god just for one day. let me drive your chariot. This is the only thing the Sun God had to refuse because no mortal can drive his chariot also, no other god can drive but himself.Yet Phaethon got in the chariot anyway and die on by falling to his death while he was on fire

When people wonder about Ancient Greece the first thing that comes to their minds is Greek mythology; gods and goddesses that have helped shape many historical events. “In ancient Greece, stories about gods and goddesses and heroes and monsters were an important part of everyday life.” (“Greek Mythology.”) The civilization showed that numerous characters and stories helped shape Greeks. The beliefs the Greeks had with mythologies was they understood the meaning behind all the characters that are known today. However, to the Greeks, they were not just characters, these were their gods and goddesses who gave them meaning and understanding of the world around them. Worshiping the gods and goddesses helped them with their religious rituals and the temperament of the weather. A famous wine-jar that was made during this time period was “Achilles killing the Amazon Queen Penthesilea, 540-530 BCE, black-figured amphora”. (Khan Academy) The civilization that they lived in grew around their worship and achievements.

Medea, from the story of the Golden Fleece, knew who Theseus was and wanted to keep her influence on the king, so she persuaded Aegeus to poison his son. Before Aegeus could give Theseus the poison, Theseus presented the sword his father left for him and while Aegeus embraced his son, dropping the cup of poison to the floor, Medea escaped to Asia. Aegeus confessed to his son that before his arrival, he sent the son of Minos, the ruler of Crete, on a dangerous mission to hunt a bull. The bull killed the son causing Minos to demand that every nine years, seven youths and seven maidens be sacrificed to the mighty Minotaur. Theseus decided to be one of the chosen sacrifices in order to kill the Minotaur. Minos' daughter, Ariadne, falls in love with Theseus and tells him that if he takes her back to Athens and marries her, she will help him escape the Minotaur's lair. He used a ball of

As Poseidon grew older, he had an interest in women. He was known for flaunting his masculinity to all the women. He began taking over women and forcing them into things. However, after a period of time, Poseidon fell in love with Amphitrite and wanted to marry her. However, Amphitrite said no to him and ran away.This angered Poseidon, so he struck

There were four queen Bernice's in Egypt, this story is about the second. Ptolemy, Bernice's' husband, was off at war. Berniece was afraid for his safety, so she made a promise to Aphrodite, the greek goddess of beauty. That if Aphrodite helped Ptolemy return safely, then Bernice would cut off her long beautiful

Once there was a boy in a big city named Perseus. He was the child of Zeus(God of lightning) and his mother's name was Danae (DA- NAY). this city was called Seriphos This city was one the oldest cities in ancient Greece. The King of the city, Polydectes wanted to marry Danae but she didn’t want to marry the King because her son Perseus didn't approve of it. So the King Polydectes was smart and he knew how to get Danae to marry him.

Once upon a time, in 200 b.C. , on Mont Olympus, Zeus, the supreme ruler of Mont Olympus, and Hera, the goddess of fertility, married. But their personality difference have always caused problems for everybody. Hera is loyal to her marriage but Zeus is not, he always has many new lovers and when Hera finds out she gets angry and really sad but there is nothing she can do.

The evil king sends Perseus on a mission to kill Medusa, one of the Gorgon sisters. After hearing the news Zeus sends Hermes and Athena to help. Hermes gives a sword and Athena gives her shield to Perseus. First Hermes flies Perseus to the gray sisters and steals their eye until they tell him were the Nymphs of the North's are.

This second attempt at gaining power was described by Herodotus as "the silliest trick which history has to record.". Dressed in gleaming armor, he arrived in the city accompanied by a tall and beautiful woman, posing as the goddess Athena. The Athenians rejoiced at the arrival of their new leader and the 'goddess' even when they discovered Athena was actually a tall girl called Phye from a local village. To cement his power, he married the daughter of Cleisthenes father, Megacles. However, when Pisistratus discovered the curse of the Alcmaeonids, he divorced her. Without their support his rule came to an abrupt end.

A long time ago in the year 140, there was a little girl named Khione. She was the niece of Zeus. Before she knew any better, she struck the city of Atlantans. She sunk the lost city. Zeus was furious; he was so mad that he would have killed Khione, but she was family, so he sent her to cave for eternity.

One day Prometheus mad Zeus mad by giving fire to mankind. So Zeus decided to punish Prometheus by chaining him to a rock for many years. Now Prometheus had a brother named Epimetheus who was very lonely since his brother was gone. So Zeus decided to also punish poor  Epimetheus. Zeus had the gods’ handyman make her out of clay. She turned out to be a beautiful women.

Once, Jupiter was entertaining a game for all the gods and goddesses. He threw a golden acorn down to Earth, entrusted it to a squirrel and promised that the first to win the trust of the squirrel and fetch the acorn would be named the goddess or god of animals. Immediately, everyone rushed to the squirrel, quarreling over who would get the acorn, as they stood at the bottom of his tree. While they fought, the squirrel looked for someone who was worthy of the acorn. When he saw Artemis, the only one not quarreling, he knew she was more than virtuous and tossed the acorn to her. The gods, realizing the squirrel’s plan a moment too late, could only watch Artemis return the golden acorn to Jupiter and be crowned the goddess of animals. After